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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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